>Ummm... 3% of the vote is a very *bad* showing for a third-party
>candidate in America....
The Nader campaign is in no way to be compared to those of George Wallace, Ross Perot, or even John Anderson. Compare it to Left campaigns like those of Norman Thomas, Henry Wallace, or Barry Commoner. Then you'll see that Nader received a much bigger vote, both absolutely and relatively, than any Left campaign since that of Robert LaFollette in 1924.
>Nader wanted to demonstrate the strength of the
>left without throwing the election to Bush. He failed on both
>counts...
It was Gore who openly, even spectacularly, threw the election, which he had won, to Bush. And where did Nader ever express the desires that are here attributed to him?
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64